|
Backup Lifecycle Management | Bare Metal Restore | Compliance
| Continuous Data Protection | Data Recoverability and Reliability | Hot Database Backup | Hot Email Backup | Laptop Backup | Limited IT Resources | Multiple Tape Libraries | Recovery Time Objectives | Scalability | Secure Backups | Shortened Backup Window | Virtual Server Backup
The issues that drive the need for efficient, cost-effective and reliable backup and recovery is similar regardless of the vertical industry. Asigra Televaulting delivers a solution that addresses the IT and business concerns for:
Backup Lifecycle Management (BLM). Backup data must be managed throughout its life cycle to provide the best data protection, meet compliance regulations and to improve recovery time objectives (RTO). The BLM Archiver offers policy-based file archiving and manages archiving and restoration of data from Asigra Televaulting backup sessions for single or multiple company locations, reducing the cost of inactive files on-line. It creates restorable point-in-time copies of backup sets for historical reference to meet compliance objectives and creates Certificates of Destruction. Learn more.
“Backup lifecycle management is a critical part of the overall management of enterprise data. Not all backup data is equal it needs to be placed on the appropriate device at specific points in its lifecycle. Treating all backup data the same is a simple solution, but it can be a very costly mistake.” Data Mobility Group
Back to the top
Bare Metal Restore. Easily deployed to address hardware failure and disaster recovery applications, Asigra’s bare metal restore is the first agentless solution for distributed environments that delivers reduced complexity and greatly reduced costs for IT professionals with mid-to-large enterprises. Asigra’s bare metal restore allows administrators to restore the complete system on new hardware – regardless of manufacturer – including local data, user profiles, registry/system state, service pack files and encrypted files. Learn more.
“We’ve restored a couple of servers with Asigra Televaulting. The bare metal recovery ability and the speed of the recovery has made it invaluable. Televaulting has already paid for itself!” U.S. Air Force
Back to the top
Compliance. Compliance regulations do not distinguish data center data from remote office data – both must be accounted for. Televaulting addresses state, Federal and international regulatory compliance demands by backing up remote/branch office data to the data center. Data is encrypted both in-flight over the WAN and at rest. Learn more.
“We were under the gun to meet compliance requirements or face exception reports with potential financial penalties. This is definitely smart software and very easy to use. We had policies set up and processes automated within two days. The auditors were waiting for results, so we certainly didn’t have time to tinker with a solution.” VAALCO Energy
Back to the top
Continuous Data Protection. Televaulting CDP provides a more efficient backup option based on its virtually unlimited granularity to remove the data loss vulnerabilities between regularly scheduled backups by optimizing Recovery Point Objectives (RPO). Customers can now restore data from an infinite number of RPOs, while the backup window and recovery time objectives are effectively reduced to zero. Asigra delivers these benefits without the need for excessive backend data accumulation to support the CDP functionality, minimizing capacity requirements resulting in additional customer cost savings. Learn more. Learn more.
“CDP has quickly become a highly desirable requirement for many enterprise operations. Offering this functionality as a non-chargeable agentless feature of their distributed backup software is a stroke of genius. It has the potential of radically altering the data protection market landscape.” Dragon Slayer Consulting
Back to the top
Data recoverability and Reliability. Backing up is all about the data recovery. If backed up data can’t be recovered – it is worthless. Asigra Televaulting’s autonomic self-healing ensures data is recoverable, solving the hidden corruption and data integrity issues that plague tape backup. “Pre-empting 3rd party data corruption in the backup process is a great differentiator for Asigra and its multi-site service provider partners. For IT teams using Asigra, they should realize that this capability means the elimination of manual interventions for integrity checks. That's a big win.” Taneja Group. Learn more.
“Asigra’s Autonomic Healing allows us to fully guarantee the integrity of our client data, and that’s something that simply cannot be said of tape. With tape, you never know if your backup is corrupted, and you won’t know until you try to restore data. At that point, you have a real problem on your hands.” DS3 DataVaulting
Back to the top
Hot Database Backup. In today’s 24x7 business climate, it is not reasonable to expect database applications to close down to enable back up. Databases contain up-to-the minute critical information necessary for ongoing business and must be included in all backup strategies. Asigra performs hot database backup for Oracle, DB2, MS-SQL and others.
“With the bandwidth throttling available in the Asigra solution, we can schedule backups as needed without interrupting any business. If we make a database modification in the middle of the day, for example, we can back it up immediately without stopping on-going activities.” McKinney Fellowship Bible Church
Back to the top
Hot Email Backup. The agentless Message Level Restore (MLR) module allows users to selectively back up and restore individual mailboxes and email messages for one user or for an entire network, depending on needs. Using MLR’s selective filtering, administrators can save time, money and resources by restoring only selected mailboxes or emails, instead of having to restore the entire email database. Televaulting performs hot email backup for: MS-Exchange, Lotus Notes or GroupWise databases. With MLR, restoring lost, damaged or corrupted messages becomes a quick and streamlined process, allowing easy recovery to any existing hardware at any location. Learn more.
“The failure of the Exchange server would have detrimentally affected our business for a week without the bare metal restore. This absolutely would have had a damaging effect on our ability to communicate with and service our clients. As a high proportion of our clients are foreign buyers, email is critical.” LINLEY Furniture
Back to the top
Laptop Backup. Asigra Televaulting for Enterprise Laptops allows laptop users to automatically and securely back up over an IT WAN to a central online repository. Client installations are fully automated across a variety of platforms. The Explorer-like backup interface makes it easer to administer centrally or on-the-road. Unlimited-seat licensing model ensures that companies pay only for the aggregate amount of compressed data from across all laptops – whether ten or thousands. Learn more.
“With Asigra, we efficiently back up entire laptops – including our engine management and OS directories – as soon as new data is retrieved from the racing vehicle. In a world where our laptops can easily be run over or disappear in seconds, Asigra allows us to quickly protect our data directly from the track so we know our information is safe and secure.” DWW/Gorilla Racing
Back to the top
Limited IT Resources. Televaulting for Service Providers is delivered by leading service providers globally as a high-value protection service to businesses who lack internal resources and technology expertise to adequately back up and protect their data to an offsite vault. In today’s complex IT landscape, many companies lack the internal resources and personnel to go it alone and require external assistance. Asigra’s service providers deliver an ever wider range of services that require expertise which would be prohibitively expensive for smaller companies to hire in and maintain. Learn more.
“Outsourcing to a service provider has bred a new confidence at both board member level and within our staff that IT inefficiencies are a thing of the past. With managed services we are functioning efficiently within and across the networks at our three offices. Asigra’s software and the remote access provided by our MSP have solved IT disparities and have also made the solutions financially viable.” NBJ Insurance Group
Back to the top
Multiple Tape Libraries. Eliminate the costs, complexity and security issues related to tape-based backup with Asigra’s agentless remote office/branch office (ROBO) backup/recovery software package that avoids lost or stolen tapes by sending encrypted backup data electronically to a centralized site, eliminating tapes completely from remote backup operations. While tape backup may be a viable solution for the data center, companies attempting to scale across a growing number of offices discover that tape for remote sites is a cumbersome process that has become a serious liability and impacts IT resources. While tape backup of corporate data at a data center carries some risk, ROBOs carry a significantly higher risk. Tapes become increasingly hard to manage, tapes are picked up at different locations with the risk of loss and even if tapes are securely stored – there’s a risk that the tape can’t be read upon retrieval. Learn more.
“Whether it’s a single mailbox or 45MB file, recovery using Asigra is lightning fast. With tape, we’d have been looking at a minimum of 15 minutes to recover a single file—and that’s after we located the correct tape sent from local or off-site storage. Since we started using the Asigra technology, the largest restoration we’ve done completed in less than five minutes. If you need to recover data just twice a week, that’s a considerable savings in IT resources and user productivity.” Morphotek, Inc.
Back to the top
Recovery Time Objectives (RTO). Televaulting software allows multiple recovery methods so that IT managers can satisfy the varying RPO/RTO requirements of different classifications of data, business needs or industry requirements. Enables local storage and recovery of the latest file generation. Learn more.
“It is essential that business-critical data is backed up and has a quick recovery time to ensure business continuity. The real-time data from the rigs, along with reports and other traditional data, are crucial for continuous operation of the rigs and therefore it is absolutely necessary to have backups in case of a failure. This critical data was previously backed up via tape, but it was problematic to recover data from these rigs to the headquarters.” Jardboranir HF (Icelandic Drilling Company)
Back to the top
Scalability. Asigra Televaulting enables seamless scalability, allowing enterprises or service providers to instantly add capacity for growth or to enhance the speed and flexibility of recovery with multiple versions of backup data.
“Our customers need large capacity, high performance storage that can cope with rapid data growth. Data availability and reliability are obviously critical, especially as more data compliance laws come into place and the repercussions of failing to securely store certain data increases.” InTechnology
Back to the top
Secure Backups. Advanced security and authentication algorithms, including AES encryption (up to 256), ensure the safety and confidentiality of backed up data in-flight and at-rest. Asigra's agentless architecture adds a layer of security. “An agentless backup software actually reduces vulnerabilities, risks, and threats associated with remote backup through the use of SSH, encrypted password storage, and encrypted client/server traffic.” Enterprise Strategy Group. Learn more.
"Since September 11, more customer RFPs required submission of disaster recovery plans. Remote locations - the problem? The data wasn't very secure and was prone to failure." Crawford Adjusters
Back to the top
Shortened Backup Window. Backup windows are shrinking as businesses demand operations 24x7. Many organizations are finding it impossible to complete backups overnight or even over the weekend. Asigra is WAN optimized featuring data de-duplication across all sites, block-level incremental backup and compression to reduce the amount of data transmitted to vault.. "These combined capabilities directly lower costs by reducing the amount of storage required for backups; and enables customers to use lower bandwidth connections.” Enterprise Strategy Group. Learn more.
“Weekend tape backups of our GroupWise server had also been problematic with extreme difficulties completing tape backups in the 60+ hour window between the end of business on Friday and start of the work week on Monday morning. Using Asigra, Myron Steves first full GroupWise backup was completed in 21 hours, and subsequent incremental backups are now completed in less than two hours every night.” Myron Steves
Back to the top
Virtual Server Backup. According to IDC, the number of servers used to run virtual machines will increase significantly from 2005 to 2010. By 2010, IDC estimates 1.7 million physical servers will be shipped to run virtual machines, a threefold increase over 2005. This substantial increase in virtualized server environments is driving user demand for backup solutions designed to deal with the intricacies associated with backing up a physical server that may have up to 128 virtual machines to protect.
The backup and recovery methods most commonly used today to protect virtualized server environments do not provide the same level of capabilities available in physical server environments, unless compromises are made – such as backing up the entire physical server versus individual virtual machines. A variety of solutions have ‘pieces’ of the overall solution needed for proper virtual machine backup but lack in terms of a comprehensive offering optimized for VM environments. For example, some solutions backup at the VM level, but require users to purchase an agent for each virtual machine – a resource-intensive proposition – and, moreover, these applications are normally required to back up the entire Virtual Machine rather than the parts of the VM that change. Others lack support for backing up enterprise applications such as Oracle, SQL server and Exchange. Still others back up at the host-level but place too burdensome a load on the host CPU resulting in degraded system performance which is unacceptable for most organizations.
Asigra delivers pro-virtualization agentless backup and recovery to virtual server environments. With 64-bit Televaulting, Asigra addresses the shortcomings of the current backup and recovery methods for protecting virtualized server environments by providing the following: agentless backup optimized for virtualized server environments; pro-virtualization pricing model, any-to-any restore capability, live VM backup, centralized management of VM backup and recovery, file-level recovery at the VM and guest OS level, Bare-metal recovery. Learn more.
“Virtual server environments bring an added layer of complexity when it comes to backup. Asigra’s agentless backup solution is definitely well equipped for this space, bringing a feature set that is positioning Asigra as a standout in VM backup." Enterprise Strategy Group
Register to receive the complete brief
“Until Asigra, there was no clear, comprehensive leader in virtual machine backup. With 64-bit Asigra Televaulting, the company provides users with a powerful backup solution to match the increasing performance and complexities of virtual server environments. There are two key features to Asigra’s Televaulting offering as it pertains to VMware – the ability to back up at the ESX Level without installing software agents which may otherwise disrupt the stability; and the ability of Asigra to back up only the block level changes of the VMDK files rather than the entire VM.” Co-founder of the VMware User Group, Philadelphia PA
Back to the top
|
